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One-liner for splitting Pascal Casing

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:30:29 GMT

Today I had to write a method for splitting Pascal Cased property names to readable text strings. Because I found a small and stylish solution, I want to show you.

How to deploy a webservice by hand

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:13:34 GMT

When you search the web for webservice deployment you always hear: "Setup a Web Setup project ." Sure, that's the easiest solution, but not if you see it in a wider scope. So here's the manual way of deploying a .NET WebService (and it's a really simplay way)

How to extract data from Microsoft Excel XML Files

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:53:48 GMT

Today I want to show how to extract data from Microsoft Excel Files. I needed it myself the time I looked for a solution to create some testdata for my application. Instead of putting the testdata into a database - which would be very hard to handle - I decided to put them into an Excel file.

How to use delegates to remove duplicated code

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Sometimes you have duplicated code, that is not easy to remove with "ordinary" coding approaches. Think about the following example. You have two or more methods that needs to be encapsulated with try-catch blocks.

How to use Custom Assemblies with Reports

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:19:46 GMT

Last days I tried to write a sql server report. In the beginning everything was fine. Until - I wanted to call a custom method in a custom assembly of my project.

A Few Quick Tips to Get More Visitors

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:13:09 GMT

The problem is getting people to actually stay and interact.

Error Handling is Error Management

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:23:52 GMT

Error handling in asynchrounous scenarios (as with WF) has some additional challanges. Making the error apparent is just one...

?? Operator and it's use case

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:01:02 GMT

Long time I asked myself, for what the heck I could use the ?? operator. Last days I found the perfect scenario for using this operator.

Public Holiday Toolkit v1.0

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:54:06 GMT

Using this toolkit enables you to show public holidays for several countries within your .NET application. This can be interessting for many use cases. Think about calendars, appointments and so on.

Robust Operations

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:32:10 GMT

Robust processing (i.e. preventing errors) and error handling are actually two sides of the same coin. This post takes a closer look at preventing some common error scenarios in WF applications.

You too can fail fast (or at least really quickly)

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:31:03 GMT

A description of contract first programming and what it means to have a fail-fast system.

New Release - AdFactum ObjectMapper .NET 2.0.2129.0

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:35:01 GMT

Today I'm proud to release version 2.0 of the AdFactum ObjectMapper .NET. This major release covers new key features like a first LINQ implementation, new projection classes and several bug fixes regarding the XML persister.

How to build CHM / HTML Documentation with Sandcastle September CTP 20

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:09:22 GMT

The new Sandcastle CTP isn't well documented at all and the documentation that can be found is useless, because the Sandcastle September CTP 2007 changed alot compared to old CTPs for that the documentation has been written. This article shows how to build your documentation with the new Sandcastle September CTP and NANT.

Talking to a Windows Service hosting WF

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:36:32 GMT

What will become of a Windows Service if I attach a WCF interface to it? A Service in the SOA sense or an internal service? What if I need a publicly available service?

Set Operations with C# Generics

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:46:02 GMT

C# Generics are powerful, but there are not many generic classes beyond List and Dictionary. Especially for Set Operations Generics are missing. That's whay I created a small class for Set Operations called Set that contains the basic Set Operations, like Union, Intersect and Difference.

Hosting WF

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:53:10 GMT

Hosting WF is easy, and there are a lot of samples available. However most samples are too simplistic for real world demands, especially when it comes to Windows Services.

In-Code Profiling with C# and log4net

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:04:35 GMT

There are many tools that can be used for profiling software. These tools are a great enrichment for our job, but sometimes they are oversized. Sometimes, you need a small solution for a particular piece of code. If you find yourself at this point, I will show you a solution here.

Workflow Communication

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:45:58 GMT

If you are new to WF you'll have to master two or three things to talk to a workflow: The service pattern, a silly interface pattern, and some threading issues. ...

ObjectDumper re-loaded

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:23:43 GMT

Sometimes in history a star flashes for a short moment to shade for the next. The same happened to the class ObjectDumper which is quite a handy class for writing NUnit Test cases - published one time in a microsoft sample - and after that never found again. The performance of that class used with NUnit was terrible, because the ObjectDumper wrote directly to the Console Out Stream. That forced NUnit to refresh the UI again and again. I improved the ObjectDumper, so that it takes a StringBuilder and write the complete output to the Console in one step. That's faster. You can output the content of every object using the following syntax: ObjectDumper.Write (object you want to output);

How to store binary data (blob)

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:39:23 GMT

This article shows how to store binary data (blobs) using the AdFactum ObjectMapper .NET.

New Release - ObjectMapper .NET 1.60.1517.1

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:44:43 GMT

Today I'm proud to present the new major release of the AdFactum ObjectMapper .NET. This release includes two new features and one major attribute change.

Using the ObjectMapper in a multi threaded environment and cascaded tr

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:57:17 GMT

This tutorial shows how to use the AdFactum ObjectMapper .NET in an enterprise environment. Therefore we assume that we have several threads (e.g. IIS sessions) that will access business services. Furthermore we are using cascading transactions. So continue reading.

New Release - ObjectMapper .NET 1.50.1428.0

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:40:19 GMT

Announcing the new release of the ObjectMapper .NET. This release is a hot fix for the last version which had a small bug. In some special cases the ObjectMapper .NET wasn't been able to deep load the object.

New Release - ObjectMapper .NET 1.50.1419.0

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:33:09 GMT

Today I'm proud to present you the new release of the AdFactum ObjectMapper .NET. The ObjectMapper .NET is an impressive open source project for object persistence, proven in real-world projects. It offers state-of-the-art object mapping functionality, yet it also provides advanced features that set it apart from other o/r mappers.

Caching Data for Windows Applications

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:14:53 GMT

This story shows how to cache data for windows applications. Re-Implementation of the System.Web.Caching.Cache class for Windows Applications.